Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lies quiet on the broken strings. The gilded slender of Louis XIV lies dark and unremembered. The last white carnation has withered in the silk lapel. The last, late debutante has stayed her minute and departed...
...Henry Morgenthau., Wilsonian U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. His mother was Bertha Morgenthau; his father Gustav Zittel, son of the late Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel, famed paleontologist. Zit is proud of his popularized nickname, has had it painted on the door of his automobile; wears in his lapel a diamond-studded...
Suntanned, wearing a red rose in his lapel, swinging a walking stick, Thomas Alva Edison returned to his Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...
Immediately, newsworthy things happened to the police force, topping and eventually extinguishing the Rothstein headlines. Independent of everyone, Commissioner Whalen organized an Air Unit, a training college, a magazine, dressed his men in lapel uniforms with Sam Browne belts, sent them forth to apply new, efficient traffic regulations, and to raid notorious nightclubs. His recent "disclosure" to Congress of "Red" plots in the U. S., put him into the national news. He reduced major crime in the metropolis; at a banquet some 2,000 citizens begged him to remain in office...
...sporty dresser, he used to put on mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...